Article: Recent studies by T. Lahey and co-authors add new data to bacteremia findings.

"Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) is a lethal and increasingly common infection ill hospitalized patients. We assessed the impact of infectious diseases consultation (IDC) on clinical management and hospital mortality of SAB in 240 hospitalized patients ill a retrospective cohort study," scientists in Lebanon report (see also Bacteremia).

"who received IDC were older than those who did not (57.9 vs. 51.7 yr; p = 0.05), and were more likely to have a health care-associated infection (63% vs. 45%; p

The researchers concluded: "IDC is associated with reduced mortality in patients with staphylococcal bacteremia."

Lahey and colleagues published their study in ...

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